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Medico-Legal Journal is dedicated to promoting Medico-Legal knowledge in all its aspects. It provides an official record of the proceedings of the Medico-Legal Society. The journal seeks to further the society’s aim to expand knowledge of medico-legal matters by commissioning articles on topics from across this diverse field. View full journal description

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A hypothalamus centred pathogenesis of heat stroke deaths – A postmortem-based human study

  • Ashok Kumar Rastogi
  • Ashutosh Kumar
  • Shreekant Bharti
  • Sanjeev Kumar Paikra
  • Ashok Kumar Datusalia
  • Amit Maruti Patil
  • Rajesh Kumar
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Refusal of life-sustaining treatment after a suicide attempt in an older adult: Medico-legal and ethical reflections from Greece

  • Petros Ioannou
  • Emmanuil Laskaridis
  • Gerasimia Ntotsika
  • Symeon Panagiotakis
  • Diamantis Kofteridis
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Fatal head injury by crossbow and ability to act: A case report and literature review

  • Federica Attico
  • Francesco Di Paola
  • Bianca Beltrame
  • Venusia Cortellini
  • Andrea Verzeletti
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Helium inhalation suicide after-online purchase for birthday party

  • Mohit Chauhan
  • Nancy Mittal
  • Mukta Rani
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The experience of drowning

  • Michael Tipton
  • Hugh Montgomery
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Extended absorption, implications: Rethinking alcohol pharmacokinetics in forensic calculations

  • Aaron Olson
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History of and evidence for puberty suppression as intervention for children experiencing gender dysphoria

  • Michael Biggs
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Knife crime in adolescents in the United Kingdom

  • Eleanor Jane Turner
  • Diana Brahams
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Lessons from web scraping coroners' Prevention of Future Deaths reports

  • Qingyang Zhang
  • Georgia C Richards
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Artificial intelligence in medicine – is too much transparency a good thing?

  • Paul Nolan
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ChatGPT in medical research: challenging time ahead

  • Daideepya C Bhargava
  • Devendra Jadav
  • Vikas P Meshram
  • Tanuj Kanchan
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Medical termination of pregnancy: A global perspective and Indian scenario

  • Devendra Jadav
  • Daideepya C Bhargava
  • Vikas Meshram
  • Raghvendra S Shekhawat
  • Tanuj Kanchan
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